Find what you love, because greatness is based on great gifts. If you love something, you can count on the fact that you are genetically gifted at it.
BARBARA SHERDO IT RIGHT, DO IT WRONG, BUT DO IT. Squeeze your eyes shut and jump. Because a wonderful thing happens then. Your focus shifts from yourself, your nervousness, and your imagined inadequacies to the task at hand.
More Barbara Sher Quotes
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Being judgmental is cheap. Any fool can do it.
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Happy people have two things in common. They know exactly what they want and they feel they’re moving toward getting it.
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Everyone has unique gifts and talents. What you love is what you’re gifted at. To be completely happy, to live a completely fulfilled life, you have to do what you love.
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Down deep we really know our worth, but we don’t have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won’t remember that we deserve it.
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Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.
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I believe you can have whatever you really want in this life, in one form or another, sooner or later. All you have to do is take care of your health and be lucky enough to live for a while. But you can’t have it all at once and you can’t have it forever. No life has the room for everything in it, not on the same day.
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It’s essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.
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If you don’t know how you feel, you won’t know what you want.
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We all need to learn a new language for love – a language that speaks not in socks, pancakes, and paychecks, but in shared fascination with physics or poetry, delight in each other’s uniqueness, and mutual practical and emotional support.
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Isolation is a dream killer.
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In the days before automobiles, people in horse-drawn wagons used to sleep if they were tired. They didn’t worry about getting lost, because the horse knew the way home. Your heart knows the way to your gifts. You can trust it to take you to them.
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A good work is a partnership between you and nature… Nature will help you every step of the way.
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Sometimes life isn’t about who you were or are, but it’s about who you are becoming.
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Thinking about swimming isn’t much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away.
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Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music.
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